Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation
§ 1307. Water rights and replacement
Statutory text
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as affecting in any way the right of any person to enforce or protect, under applicable law, his interest in water resources affected by a surface coal mining operation.
The operator of a surface coal mine shall replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part of his supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other legitimate use from an underground or surface source where such supply has been affected by contamination, diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from such surface coal mine operation.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Pub. L. 95–87 title VII § 717 · 91 Stat. 445
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1307
(Pub. L. 95–87, title VII, § 717, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 526.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 95–87, title VII, § 717, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 526.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 717. water rights and replacement (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting in any way the right of any person to enforce or protect, under applicable law, his interest in water resources affected by a surface coal mining operation. (b) The operator of a surface coal mine shall replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part of his supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other legitimate use from an underground or surface source where such supply has been affected by contamination, diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from such surface coal mine operation.
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